Although the Lantern Festival once did not shy away from going out to see the lights with Xu Xun, which also caused a big turmoil, but when the wedding date was set for the eighth day of the second lunar month, Shen Yue immediately moved out of Xing'an Bo's Mansion and moved into a four-entry house in Jinchengfang Waterwheel Hutong that her father and brother bought in Xicheng, which was also one of her future dowries.

She has been in the capital for more than a year, first opened a small shop, and then listened to Xu Xun's affairs of Xianyuan, and Gu Dayong summed up the development of the business district near Tongjiaqiao, where Xianyuan is located, and naturally knew very well about the market of buying houses and land in the capital. The capital is rich in the west and rich in the east, that is to say, the house in the east city can at least be taken down after a lot of money, but the house in the west city is easy to get a house for a thousand dollars, not to mention such a four-entry regulation. On the day she moved in, she learned that there had been a royal history living here, so she couldn't help but ask her father about the price of the house, but what she got was not the answer she wanted.

"Money is just a blockage, life does not bring death, I have always planned to add those furniture to five for you and your eldest brother to share, and I have told him. You don't care about how much money you have, just prepare for marriage at home with peace of mind, and don't care about anything else...... You deserve it, Dad and your mother just hate not being able to give you more. ”

"But ......" Seeing that his father's eyes were clearly unquestionable, Shen Yue had to explain, "But Dad, when I arrived in the capital, I said that everything that should be prepared has been prepared, whether it is a wedding dress, a wooden house, or a porcelain, there can be at least sixty-four lifts, and there are one hundred and twenty-eight lifts if the network is relaxed." It's the land and house, and I took out all the money my grandmother gave me at the beginning, and you still leave the money to my brother and future grandchildren. ”

Shen Guang shook his head: "What your grandmother gave you is her heart, and what I give you now is the heart of my father and your eldest brother, so you don't need to say it anymore." It's a loss to have those you prepared early, otherwise it will be too late to temporarily go to make wood and porcelain, these expenses are less, and the father of the house and field will not lose you. Jurong's grange was offered, but the Shen family still has a lot of fertile land in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and your eldest brother said that he would give you 1,000 acres of Songjiang paddy fields to marry. ”

Even if the couple has any grievances in the future, the daughter will not be too sad to keep the marriage...... Of course, Xu Xun didn't know that his future father-in-law was still there, and if he knew, he would definitely sigh again and spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Although there is no definite news about his departure from Beijing, there are already some signs in the officialdom, so although he directed and acted in such a scene, he didn't want to be really looked down upon. So, because the Shen family didn't have any foundation in the capital, it didn't look good when adding boxes, so he had to mention Zhu Houzhao. As a result, on the day of the fifth day of the second lunar month, not only did the Empress Dowager Zhang give a box of Nanzhu in the palace, but the little emperor rewarded a pair of dragons and phoenixes with auspicious jade pendants, and even the Empress Dowager Wang, who lives in Qingning Palace and now ignores foreign affairs, also rewarded the four ends of the table, which is actually a new cluster of red python satin.

While this kind of scenery made Shen Guang happy, he was completely busy. Although almost all of the civil officials were indifferent to such a happy event, the nobles were much more realistic, and the three families of the British Duchy and the Duke of Baoguo all sent women from their daughters-in-law to congratulate them, and there were many other second-class marquis and earls, and Mrs. Shouning simply went to the scene in person. Rao is waterwheel alley, this four-entry mansion was originally very large, but in the end, it seemed a little unmoving.

When it came to the day of the dowry, the scene was even grander. The waterwheel alley is in the south of Fuchengmen Street, only separated by one alley, and Wu'anhou Hutong is on the north side of Fuchengmen Street, separated by seven or eight alleys. Watching the lively people along the street, they opened their heads and poked their heads, and there were rumors that the Shen family was doing their best to marry their daughter, and the rumors that accused the Shen family of marrying once in the past were naturally not so marketable.

Even those women in the market with thick waists and round bodies will move out of the plot in Jinling's dream and say: "The Shen family was forced to accept the Zhao family in the first place, where can that kind of marriage count...... Besides, when Lao Tzu knew that he owed his daughter, and now he desperately wants to make up for the old things, what else is worth saying? ”

Even Xu Yanche, who was invited by Xu Xun and followed Wang Shikun to urge makeup, whispered to Qi Jiliang in private, nothing more than saying that even if such a daughter-in-law marries into another prince's family, with these dowries as the foundation, the in-laws will treat each other more or less softly. After all, now that it is far from the founding of the country, some of the lords and nobles are still wealthy, but some have been reduced to the situation of relying on the dowry of their daughters-in-law. Therefore, in addition to those who envy the Shen family for marrying into a wealthy family, there are also people who are jealous of Xu Xun's light and clever fortune.

When it came to the day of marriage, Xing'an Bofu was naturally busy early in the morning. The road from the door to the atrium was naturally swept and swept, and sprinkled with water to prevent dust, and the top and bottom were changed into new clothes, and the steward with a head and face was even walking with a shy stomach, and before the Chinese New Year, he was squeezed by Xu Xun, and all the halls and pavilions in the Xing'an Bo Mansion were pasted with the dragon flying phoenix dance Spring Festival couplets Tang Yin, this day was helplessly pulled by Xu Xun to the Shen family to welcome his relatives.

Walking on the road, seeing that everyone was paying attention to the young man in front of him, there were also many people pointing at him, he couldn't help but be in a trance, and suddenly remembered the scene when Xie Yuan entered Beijing to take the exam in junior high school. At that time, how could he have thought that this stumbling time would be a full six years, and he could not even see a glimmer of light for a while?

"That's Tang Jieyuan!"

The crowd didn't know who was crying out, and everyone who knew and didn't know for a while was shouting there. Tang Yin could even hear someone tear up his voice and say, "Tang Xie Yuan doesn't know who he is?" It's too lonely and unheard, the first genius in Gusu who wrote the "Dream of Jinling" before! I heard that when the first emperor was still there, he was fooled by the annihilation people and robbed him of his fame, and now the emperor sent Jiao Shangshu of the Criminal Department to re-examine many old cases, and only then did he return his innocence! ”

"Ah, that's the Nanzhili Tang Xie Yuan seven years ago?"

"Isn't he able to write so many good words in "Dream of Jinling"? I heard that Tang Xie Yuan is still single now......"

Hearing countless words of praise and facing countless curious eyes, Tang Yin, who had not faced such a scene for a long time, felt a little distracted. What he didn't expect was that there were even many big girls and little daughters-in-law watching on the side of the road, and those ** naked eyes made him dizzy, until he found that he was almost catching up with Xu Xun's horse's head, he suddenly woke up and quickly slowed down the horse.

"I deliberately slowed down and waited for you." Xu Xun looked at Tang Yin with a smile, and then said word by word, "Now that Bohu is once again famous in Jinghua, this name is no worse than me!" I heard that you have been alone all these years, and when you bring Ling Yan to the capital, you might as well plan for the future. It doesn't matter if you don't take the exam again, but other issues have to be considered. There is no grass at the end of the world, look at today's situation, if you live outside, I am afraid that someone will look up to you! ”

After making fun of Tang Yin, Xu Xun lightly whipped the horse on the horse's stock, and when he saw the horse galloping out like a happy hoof, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

He didn't use Tang Yin as a staff counselor, with such a literary genius by his side, sometimes it is far more useful than those old oilmen who are good at planning and calculating! In this case, making a name for the other party is also making a name for himself, the kind of ungraceful thing that only wants to make people use for his own use and suppresses people to death, he disdains!

When the group arrived at the waterwheel alley, the Shen family's little servant, who had been waiting here, ran in to inform their master. Due to his father Xu Liang's admonition and unavoidable rules, Xu Xun went here twice after Shen Yue moved out of Xing'anbo's Mansion, but he didn't even see a single hair of his fiancée. When it was time for the main hall to leave his father, listening to Shen Yue's choked tone when he spoke, he couldn't help but quietly squeeze her hand.

"If you really want to, you might as well take them to the capital to live for a while."

Through a layer of hijab, hearing such words in his ears, Shen Yue only felt that his nose was sour, and it was easy to hum softly. However, when the eldest brother Shen Ke came to carry her out in person, she still couldn't help but whisper: "Big brother, I will ask you for my father...... If there's anything going on at home, you must tell me! ”

"Well, you can rest assured!"

Shen Ke is a scholar, and he is not a strong man, but today he insisted on carrying his sister all the way out of the main hall, and he was already out of breath before he had walked far, but he refused to take a break. However, when he crossed the outermost threshold and saw the richly decorated sedan chair, he finally couldn't help but stop, and then he slowed down and walked forward on his back, as if he wanted to walk this last journey slower and slower.

It wasn't until he put the person in the sedan chair that he blocked the red sedan curtain with one hand, and only then said softly after a while: "Yue'er, although Xu Xun doesn't seem to bully you, but if you suffer any grievances, don't hold it in your heart, you must tell me." Some things hurt in my heart, and it's much better to say them. Big brother didn't have much ability to protect you before, but in the future, I will definitely study hard and test my fame hard, and I will definitely have the ability to protect you in the future! ”

"Big Brother ......"

Shen Yue, who finally stopped the sadness in her heart, couldn't help but burst into tears, and couldn't say anything after screaming. When she mustered up the courage to lift the hijab, she found that the sedan curtain had fallen somewhere, and the sedan chair was lifted high with a sway.

"It's a sedan chair!"

Compared with the Shen family, it seems to be lively when they send off their relatives, but in fact, they are all female relatives who are closely related to Xu Xun's interests, but in fact, there are not many real relatives and friends, and the Xing'an Bo Mansion is really lively.

The ladies all went to the Shen family to help fill the scene, and the men naturally gathered here. Considered to be the older generation, there are the British Duke and the Baoguo Gong, the two Guogong who have been in the Beijing camp and the 12th regiment camp for a lifetime talk and laugh, but occasionally they inevitably stab each other, and the young Dingguo Duke Xu Guangzuo has to be in the middle to make peace. The two brothers, Shouning Hou Jianchang and Hou, sat side by side on the other side, but they didn't say much, after all, the previous knot had not been completely untied. As for the officers from the avant-garde of the government army, three other halls were set up for them, and a large crowd of people were shouting and shouting that almost overturned the room. Among them, a few days ago, the concubine He Cailian had just been diagnosed with a pregnant Qian Ning, who was full of ambition and spoke the loudest.

"Today's great day, when the time comes, everyone must work hard!"

"Lord Qian, you're kidding, go to the adult's cave room, and you're not afraid to put on small shoes for you when you turn around! Don't say anything else, adults are staring, do you dare to speak? ”

Ma Qiao's exaggerated words aroused a lot of echo from below, and Qian Ning was dumbfounded for a while. But thinking that he had taken a concubine and the little emperor himself to make a fuss, he thought that Xu Xun's marriage had made such a big noise, and he didn't know what kind of beauty the Shen family was, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy. Just as he was thinking about how to use to see what kind of demeanor this beauty who was about to become Mrs. Pingbeibo was, there was a loud shout outside.

"It's coming, it's coming, the sedan chair has entered the alley!"

Although the capital has always had a ban on fireworks and firecrackers in order to prevent fires, it has never been really implemented, just like the prohibition of military and civilian women from playing on the streets during the Lantern Festival. As Qian Ning and the others swarmed out of the small flower hall, they only heard a deafening burst of firecrackers outside, followed by Xu Xun, who was dressed in red and hung with colors, leading the newcomer with a hijab on his head into the door. At this time, Qian Ning, who was still shouting just now, immediately closed his mouth and said nothing.

When Xu Xun went out to greet his relatives, there were already a lot of guests gathered at home, and when he came back and found that the wedding booths on both sides were full of black heads, he couldn't help but be startled, and secretly thought that today's thirty tables of banquets are not enough? But today he is the groom's official, and he has no time to take care of this kind of thing, and his thoughts disappear without a trace as soon as he spins in his heart.

In the waterwheel alley has been tossing for a long time, this time back home, Xu Xun endured the surname by the person again tossed in front of the heaven and earth table for a long time kneeling and worshipping, and when he sat on the happy bed, he only felt dry mouth and back pain, but when he took the scale rod, his spirit came again. Although there were some other ladies in the room, he didn't pay attention to the envious gaze of those people at all, and gently picked up the big red hijab on that side, and saw that Shen Yue, who was wearing a phoenix crown, had red cheeks, which was a little more delicate than before, he couldn't help but smile, and then picked up all the hijabs.

After the wine was the etiquette of eating, listening to those auspicious words without any new ideas, and finally to the end of all the etiquette, he sent everyone away without saying a word, leaving only Ruyi in the room, and then he took a long breath, and fell on the bed at once with great grace.

"It's finally over!"

"What's over, I don't know how to say two auspicious words at this time!" Shen Yue, who was helping Ruyi remove the heavy phoenix crown, twisted his stiff neck, and also couldn't help but grin and knock his shoulder twice, and then said angrily, "Hurry up, you can't stay here for too long, there are so many people waiting for you to entertain outside!" ”

"Lady, why don't you let me relax here for a while, but you have finally come out, but I still have to go out with a smile on my face and let people visit for a few hours...... To say that the most pitiful thing in the world is the groom official at this time. Although he was pulled up by Shen Yue, Xu Xun still sighed, and when he was caught two big eyes, he raised his hand to say that he didn't say anything, called Ruyi and ordered, "Your young lady got up early to dress up, she shouldn't have eaten anything, I have prepared the kitchen for snacks early, just squeak if you want anything, there are people outside." If something happens, let people come to me......"

Listening to Xu Xun's long-winded words to Ruyi, Shen Yue couldn't help but push him hard, but his heart was sweet. However, seeing Xu Xun get up and walk out, she was about to lean on the bed for a moment to recover her spirits, but when she saw the person walking back again, she almost thought that he was playing with herself again.

"Hey ......"

"I just remembered to say something to you, your godmother should tell you that you can't get out of something just now, so you can't come to see off your relatives, right?" Seeing that Shen Yue nodded in amazement, with both doubts and annoyance in his eyes, Xu Xun said in a low voice, "Before the Shen family came, she should have shown her face, but the reason why she hid and didn't show her head was because she was afraid that something would not be able to cover it." The monk and your godmother are thunderous, and the flowers accidentally fell to fruit, because the month is too shallow, so I have to raise a guarantee at home first, and when our affairs pass, we will quickly and low-key do the happy event. She didn't dare to tell you for fear of being embarrassed, and I was afraid that you would be cranky, so I would say it first. ”

Putting aside these words, he didn't look at Shen Yue's dumbfounded expression, and quickly slipped out of the cave room with oil on the soles of his feet. Sure enough, as soon as he came out with his front feet, Shen Yue's angry voice came from the house.

"That dead monk who doesn't do good deeds!"

The people outside the room are all properly arranged, and there is no cause and effect in this mere sentence, and no one is afraid to guess, so Xu Xun just nodded lightly and walked out, but he couldn't help but scold Huitong for his virtue in his heart. Needless to say, it is a habit that has been cultivated after decades of messing around outside and not getting married, and now he is embarrassed, and he has to explain to the little girl, and I don't know what to do with the marriage of the dead monk in a few days. The punishment of thousands of households in the West Factory seems to be of a low grade, but it is impossible to be carried in a small sedan chair to count!

Stacking up his energy to deal with all kinds of guests outside is not something Xu Xun likes to do, especially since today is his big day, this kind of thing will inevitably become more boring. What he likes is to be prepared and then let people unconsciously do what they designed, but he is the one who wants to be a marionette today, which is naturally not a happy thing. Although with his current status, he didn't need to toast from table to table, but he was inevitably poured a few glasses by someone who was not good at refusing, and as soon as the wine came to his mind, he heard a voice outside.

"There is a will...... Master, young master, there is a will in the palace! ”

It is not always necessary to use a lieutenant official to pass the decree, whether it is the appointment and dismissal of officials or others, otherwise there are so many officials from the capital to the local government, even if there are more eunuchs in the palace, they will have to die of exhaustion. However, the eunuchs who came to Xing'anbo's Mansion to deliver the decree were extremely frequent, so high that they were commonplace from top to bottom, and at this time, from opening the middle door to placing the incense case, and inviting the bride sitting on the bed out in a hurry, it took less than a quarter of an hour.

This time, it was not the eunuchs who passed the decree, but the eunuch Liu Jin, the internal official eunuch. He nodded at Xu Xun with a smile, and then said slowly: "The Empress Dowager's decree, the emperor's holy decree: Today's Pingbei Bo is married, give ten days of leave, and give Pingbeibo's wife Shen as Mrs. Pingbeibo, and give the late Xing'an Bo Xu Liang's wife Mrs. Fang's Xing'anbo, and give Xinghe Xuntian 3,000 acres." Today, the rebuilding of the Confucian Temple of Tianfu Gongyuan has been completed, because Pingbei Bo had donated land to help repair, so that Pingbei Bo went to Jinling Shigong Temple, and gave another hundred taels of gold to rebuild Wende Bridge. Wen Fang's family is still in Nanjing, and it is advisable to return to the ancestral grave, and give Xing'an Bo a leave of March to move the burial. Shen's grandmother was deeply troubled, and she was specially allowed to go south with her husband to visit, and admired this. ”

As soon as this will, which was almost equivalent to the vernacular, came out, even Xu Liang and Shen Yue, who had already received the letter from Xu Xun's mouth in advance, were all taken aback, not to mention the room full of guests. Although many people speculated that there were no civil officials to congratulate him today, it was incongruous compared with the scene of Xu Xun being crowned uncle last time, but no one expected that Xu Xun was going to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and this time he went with his wife, even his father had to go with him, and the buzzing around him did not stop for a while. In contrast, the decree that had always been sealed by the Ministry of Officials was given at this time, but it did not cause much turmoil.

British Duke Zhang Mao frowned, and when he saw that Xu Guangzuo on the side was pondering something, he took a step closer and said in a low voice: "Dingguo Gong, you sent your sons directly to Xu Xun, he is leaving, do you plan to think of a way to avoid suspicion?" ”

Xu Guangzuo saw Xu Xun talking to Liu Jin with a calm face after receiving the order, and sent him out, he pondered for a long time and was about to speak, his eyes suddenly caught a little eunuch next to Liu Jin with low eyebrows, he immediately smiled and said: "British duke, after this Pingbei Bo entered Beijing, have you seen him suffer?" ”

British Gong Zhang Mao said disapprehantly: "Not suffering losses in the past does not mean that you will not suffer losses in the future, those bosses are not easy to deal with!" ”

Xu Guangzuo, the Duke of Dingguo, saw that Zhu Hui, the Duke of Baoguo, had quietly left the table, and he thought that maybe he was the only one who recognized the person next to Liu Jin, but after thinking about it, he still decided to pull in the strong reinforcement of the British Duke Zhang Mao, after all, the Dingfu was far less powerful than it was back then. He blinked his eyes and whispered: "This Jinling dream has been performed in Renshou Palace Qingning Palace, can't the British Duke still see it?" Moreover, the little flame on the right of Gonggong Liu just now, I don't know if the British Gonggong has looked carefully? ”

Zhang Mao immediately understood what Xu Guangzuo meant, and this surprise was not trivial. If it was really the little emperor who came in person, wouldn't that mean that this decree had another meaning? However, even if the holy family is still there, now those bosses are deeply rooted after all, as long as Xu Liang is given the name of Nanjing garrison, and then find something to drag Xu Xun for a year and a half or even longer, who can guarantee that no one will go away?

However, in the gatehouse of Xing'an Bo's Mansion, in the room where the idle people were cleared all of a sudden, Zhu Houzhao, who deliberately thickened and widened his chin, grabbed the black gauze hat, and then asked angrily: "Xu Xun, why did you get married today, but you didn't even have a civil official, even Wang Shouren, Zhang Cai, Xu Zhenqing and others?" The last time you were knighted, I clearly remember that many people came to congratulate you! ”

(To be continued)